$250K

$250K Awarded to Bay Area Discovery Museum

With significant donor support, the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Early Childhood Fab Lab can change the way children understand, interact with, and ultimately contribute to the world around them. The Fab Lab will enable interactive learning opportunities that develop fundamental creativity and STEM skills at an early age and prepare children for success in a rapidly evolving, technological world.

$250K

$250K Awarded to Center for Youth Wellness

CYW’s vision is to improve the health, education and wellness of children exposed to early adversity. This requires expanded investments in clinical innovations, scientific research and broad national dissemination and awareness to drive changes in pediatric clinical protocols and the adoption of multidisciplinary interventions for treating children exposed to adversity.

$226K

$226K Awarded to Playworks

The big vision is leveraging play to transform how children experience school and, by extension, how they perform in school. Playworks creates healthy, safe, and supportive school environments where children are happy and ready to learn. Playworks will achieve success when the education sector values and measures social/emotional skills, empowering every child to lead with empathy and inclusion

$220K

$220K Awarded to SEEDS of Learning

SEEDS will change the trajectory of 9,000 children/year in the Bay Area by dramatically improving teacher and parent capacity to apply new knowledge in daily interactions with children, making them effective agents to boost the early literacy of young children. This will enable us to build a platform for scale to reach even more children in the Bay Area and beyond in future years.

$153K

$153K Awarded to Room to Read

Room to Read believes that if all children can pursue a quality education, they can access opportunities providing better employment, higher wages and healthier lives for themselves and their children. Room to Read’s innovative model focuses on deep, systemic change within schools that can be replicated and sustained by governments. Additional funding would allow Room to Read to scale faster.

$147K

$147K Awarded to UCSF Dyslexia Center

We need to transform the factory school system into an institution of individualized learning grounded in research- proven practice. The UCSF Dyslexia Center’s translational approach to collaborative neuroscience and education creates technology driven systems to identify difficulties and intervene early, dramatically changing life trajectories for the US’ 15 million children with dyslexia.

$124K

$124K Awarded to CEPA Labs at Stanford University

The organization’s goal is unmatched support for positive parenting at unprecedented scale. Ready4K sees meaningful gains in school readiness, especially for traditionally under-served children. The organization also envisions, through Ready4k, developing a better understanding of parenting so that new technologies can be developed and utilized to continually improve opportunities for children.

$79K

$79K Awarded to Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL)

SEAL would create a strategic plan for national expansion and policy impact, including a focus on teacher education. This would involve partnering with key organizations such as IHEs committed to quality teacher preparation and equity - thus preparing teachers for joyful classrooms in which students acquire deep learning, rich language and recognition that bilingualism is a 21st century skill.